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P. A. SEEWAGEN.

PRESS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 27, 1920.

1,41 7 A 1 7 Patented May 23, 1922.

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T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILLIP A. SnnwAonN, a citizen of the United Statesresiding at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Presses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a press particularly adapted for making ornamental beads, and it is the object of the invention to provide a simplified construction arranged to form beads between two co-operating dies.

. The invention will be readily understood from the following description of the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1- is a top plan view of the press.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof.

3 is a side elevation thereof partly in vertical section.

Fig. 4c is a detail view of a portion of one of the die plates.

The improved press comprises die plates 1 and 2 guided toward and away from one another by rods 3 extending through suitable openings 4 in the respective die plates. The die plates are normally held in spaced relation by springs 5. shown as coil springs, surrounding the rods 3 and interposed between the respective die plates. The press may be supported with the lower. die plate resting upon a suitable supporting bench or the like, shown at 6. Means are provided for drawing the upper die plate toward the lower plate against the action of springs 5, sa1d means being shown as comprising a foot treadle 7 beneath the workbench 6 and connected with the upper die plate as by a rod 8 extending upwardly through a suitable opening 9 in the workbench and through suit-able alined openings 1 in the die plates. Any suitable connecting swivel 11 may be provided between the upper end of the rod 8 and the upper die plate. The die plates are arranged to carry co-operating dies. between which, the beads are formed. A plurality of said sets of co-operating dies being, preferably. arranged upon the die plates.

The individual dies are shown at 12 as comprising suitable plugs, the die surfaces of which, are suitably recessed as shown at 13, so that when the die surfaces of two cooperating die plugs, carried by the upper and lower die plates, are brought together, a head of the desired conformation will he formed in the recess thus provided between Specification of Letters Patent.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

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Patented May 23, 1922.

1920. Serial-No. 3S&,682.

the die surfaces. It will be understood that the die surfaces may be provided with any suitable depressions and projections for :tiorming beads of any desired irregular outline. In practice thepress is found particularly applicable to the formation of beads representing flowers and the like. The die plugs 12 are, preferably, retained within sockets 14: provided adjacent the front edges of the die plate, the walls of said sockets. preferably, projecting above the surfaces of the die plates with the walls of one socket forming a continuation of the walls of next adjacent sockets upon a die plate. The sockets for the die plugs may extend-through the die plates, so that the die plugs may be readily inserted in their sockets, and retaining screws 15 may be threaded through the walls of the respective sockets, so as to engage the respective die plugs for removably retaining the latter in position. The walls of sockets 14; between adjacent die plugs are provided with transverse grooves 16 extending from one die plug to the next adjacent die plug, and the edges of the die plugs are notched as shown at 17, in alinement with said grooves.

By this arrangement, when the two die plates of a press are brought together, a channel is formed, extending along the set of dies by means of the co-operating grooves and notches 16 and 17 in the dies carried by the respective die plates. This channel is arranged to receive a suitable wire. which will thus extend along the set of dies through the beads formed between the respective cooperating die surfaces provided upon the respective die plates.

The ends of the guide rods 3 which connect the two die plates are, preferably, received through collars 20 upon the respective die plates so arranged to abut one against the. other when the die plates are moved toward one another. The movement of the die plates toward one another is thus limited by said collars, which are so arranged as to permit the die plates to move a sufiicient distance to form the beads without causing contact between the alined dies of the opposite die plates.

In operation the dough or paste from which the beads are to be formed is placed in the form of a strip along the dies of the lower die plate and the upper die plate is then depressed so as to form the beads between the cooperating die surfaces of the two die plates. The upper die plate is held. depressed and a wire is then inserted through the channel extending across the eo-operating die plates, so that said wire will. extend through the series of beads formed between the die plates. The die plates are then released, so as to move apart and leave the formed beads resting upon the lower die plate. The beads may be removed by means of the wire extending through the same and dried in any suitable manner, and the wire is then withdrawn from the beads. Beads are thus arranged to be formed from suitable plastic material, said beads having openings extending theretln'ough the beads may be readily strung.

By forming the beads in a press having two cooperating die surfaces it is possible to employ a greatly simplified machine, and a much simpler operation than has hitherfor been possible by the use of a press of more than two die surfaces.

It will be apparent that various changes may be made in the construction as thus whereby described without departing from the spirit of the invention. 7

What is claimed is l. A press comprising die plates movable toward and away from one another and each having a plurality of die recesses, the die recesses of one die plate being arranged to co-operate with the die recesses of the other plate, the die recesses of the die plates having co-operating cross channels connecting the respective recesses of the die plates.

2. A press comprising series of die recesses connected by longitudinally alined cross grooves, two of said series of die recesses and grooves arranged to be moved toward and away from one another.

3. A press comprising series of die recesses connected by longitudinally alined cross groves, two of said series of die re cesses and grooves co-operating to form a plurality of molds and a cross channel connecting said molds.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification. V

PHILLIP A. SEEWVAGEN. 

